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...pros will also be aided by some volunteers: a pair of busybody spinsters called The Snoop Sisters (Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick) and The Magician (Bill Bixby), an all-American vaudevillian version of the nonviolent Kung-Fu, who conquers evil with birds and bunnies from his hatful of tricks...
Outside in the bright sun, the fair beckons in every direction. A middle-aged woman in a purple dress directs a dozen kids playing accordions in unison. A youth in a Fu Manchu mustache does card tricks to show how you can cheat with a shaved deck; he then offers shaved decks for sale...
...only American manufacturer trying to switch TV trade channels between the U.S. and the Far East. While Taiwan factories make more than half of all the black-and-white TV sets sold in the U.S., many under Japanese brand names, RCA Corp. earlier this year signed up the Lai Fu Trading Co. to sell RCA color sets in Taiwan...
Though the Shaw brothers have been making films since the mid-'20s, the only Western distribution their Kung Fu movies used to have was in the Chinatowns of Europe and America. Last January, however. Run Run decided to peddle his Kung Fu movies to a wider audience. "American people always love action," he says to explain his Great Leap Forward. "Hollywood made lots of money with cowboys until Italians made cowboy pictures with more action. Next came James Bond." He adds proudly: "Now from Hong Kong comes Kung Fu...
...give Run Run and Runme a run for their money. "It's like Chinese food," says Run Run. "When Americans taste it, they like it." Indeed they do. In one recent week, the three top-grossing films in the U.S. were a trio of brothers-in-Kung Fu: Five Fingers, Fists of Fury and Deep Thrust: The Hand of Death...